The market driven trade liberalization and East Asian regional integration

This paper creates a new index (index of bilateral trade relation) to quantitatively evaluate the degree of regional economic integration based on countries' de facto bilateral trade relations. It concludes that a fundamental arrangement of East Asian regionalism should involve at least one of the two hub candidates - Japan and China. It also suggests that the China-ASEAN FTA (CAFTA) may trigger domino effects of regionalism in East Asia.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Chen, Lurong
Publisher:	Geneva : Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Subject:	Handelsregionalismus \| Messung \| Handelsliberalisierung \| Freihandelszone \| Indexberechnung \| Ostasien \| trade liberalization \| regional integration \| East Asian regionalism

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Series:	HEID Working Paper ; 12/2008
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	612004929 [GVK] hdl:10419/77421 [Handle]
Classification:	F15 - Economic Integration ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes
Source:	EconStor

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